I was talking with a friend recently about Peace on Earth. We want Peace on Earth…right? It’s been around for a long time, this idea…heck, it’s a Biblical reference! But this time it really struck me just how many people “want” Peace on Earth…So why are so many people suffering?

I’ve been thinking, and talking, a lot lately about the causes of personal and collective suffering. It is clear we have complicated our lives so much that taking the time to simply be with and consciously work with that which triggers stress, anxiety, depression and a basic discomfort in daily life can seem overwhelming and impossible. We are being conditioned to believe that taking medications to relieve the symptoms is the best strategy, often to the exclusion of taking th

OK, first I just need to say in full transparency that writing this blog was challenging! I love it when I feel inspired by an idea, write about it, and quite quickly it feels on target and ready to share. This time, writing about Energy got so complex and convoluted that I found my myself losing the initial intention and asking myself, “What the heck am I writing about?!” It all became a whole lot of blah blah blah. I mean, Energy is a BIG word, and in so many ways out of my

Nowadays that title above is a loaded one, and will likely ruffle some feathers. It seems that we currently live in a culture where people expect everything to matter. But maybe we are unintentionally conditioning ourselves to focus on possibly the very thing we don’t want?

The conversation for many of us these days is how technology is undermining our connectivity…how we spend more time looking down at or communicating through our phones and tablets and less through our fundamental human interactions. And how, to the horror of some, the younger generation is relying almost exclusively on this modality to live life.

I was playing some relaxing piano music the other day and a client told me they experienced it as depressing. I found it soothing, evocative, moody, haunting, beautiful. See how that is? An experience can be radically different for each of us. And how often do we assume that something just is a certain way? Static, global, we make sweeping generalizations about a topic and can assume others are in agreement.

I read a news article recently about a celebrity and their experience as a media target. Their reaction, as the article said, was to cry...

I was watching Michael Beckwith at the Agape International center deliver his weekly message online, and he was speaking of, well, what he is always speaking of, which is where we put our attention, our trust. This time he was speaking of how we misuse fear that does not serve us and only serves the perpetuation of fear.

I just completed a big home move which was fun, inspiring and exhausting. But one thing was sure, I had tremendous help and offerings of help throughout, unconditional help. Every time a dear friend offered to help me, the DIY part of me that feels the need to say No and not burden anyone flared up, while another part of me said Yes, because I felt their genuine offer and their desire to Give. It felt unconditional and open-hearted. Plus, I just like being with them. This kin

It seems like I am having more conversations with people who are making some type of transition in their life. I myself am shifting, moving from a home I have lived in for over a decade and into a new exciting chapter. Another leap of faith in an ongoing life adventure. I see the waves of attachment versus surrender to a larger vision flowing through me.

There is a new book out called THE END OF EVERYTHING, by Katie Mack, Theoretical Cosmologist, that for me stirs a question related to something Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of--a moral justice prevailing--albeit on the largest cosmological scale possible in the author’s macro perspective. Her astrophysical projection doesn’t end well, but apparently we have tens of billions of years to get used to that.

I had the great honor this week to be on a university alumni call with people from around the world, many hundreds of people, to experience guest speaker Iyanla Vanzant—inspirational speaker, author, TV host, lawyer—regarding these times and being a black woman. I say "experience" because it was just that, and stirred me at my core. Iyanla and I shared a classroom together many years ago at the university, studying Spiritual Psychology, and she inspired me each time she stood

As we prep ourselves for another phase of moving back into the world, most of us having spent almost two months in a radical shift of relationship with how our societies have operated and how that has affected our personal lives, we have probably heard the phrase, “I am ready for things to get back to normal.” I understand. We want to open up and interact with our world more fully again, of course.

I recently read a beautiful interview in the NYTimes* with Jack Kornfield, author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. His level of acceptance and compassion is palpable even in writing. And he asked the question, in response to the interviewer feeling both good fortune during this current pandemic and also feelings of guilt and fear, “How do I tend this moment?” Jack was encouraging David the interviewer to be present to and acknowledge his c

Have you noticed in your own world that the home-stays we are amidst are creating some taxing confinement for some you know, and maybe you yourself? Is that confinement making you uncomfortable, as you forfeit so many activities you are used to doing, especially physical ones like going to yoga classes, the gym, and outdoor group activities that work some of that cortisol stress out?

Well, there’s always something to learn in the present circumstance right? No matter what’s going on, there is a teaching moment where we get to decide how we will deal with the issue at hand, because we certainly can’t control it. Sometimes we are happy with how we deal with an issue, and sometimes we’re not. I’m always reminded of the quote, “The way we deal with the issue IS the issue.” And in that there is great opportunity to learn and grow.

It’s an interesting thing, being Ready. We hear it a lot. We talk about relationships and might say, “I’m not ready.” We want to start a new venture or business and hear ourselves or others saying, “I’m not quite ready.” We want to buy a home or car and think, “I’m not there yet.” This really struck me the other day as I was talking with a friend about “not being ready.”

In the midst of creating an online program, I keep thinking about its underlying message and purpose—what shift do I feel is most important at this time in human history in order to thrive despite the diminishing choices made that we see all around us? Does the essence of this “happiness” program speak to that evolutionary potential and our current and conditioned barriers to that? And of course, what is my part in this?

How many times do we find ourselves struggling over something—a decision we need to make, an argument with a partner or coworker, some life circumstance—only to bring all of our decision-making awareness to the current moment where we feel confused, unclear, and reactive? We then respond to the external discomfort from this place rather than using more mindful energy for deeper resolution within ourselves and to set up better outcomes? You see, even though we may be in confli

As we enter the time of Thanksgiving, I place before you an invitation to contemplate happiness. Your happiness. Your sustainable...